[olug] C book recs

[Sean Edwards]

I think he wants to use the SWIG tool and extend PERL
to support templates, C procedures, typemaps, classes,
methods . . . 

-=Sean Edwards=-

--- Thomas Roehr <troehr at nj-onramp.com> wrote:

> Learning C++ is not the same as learning C.
> 
> C is essentially Shorthand for Assembler
> programming.
> 
> C++ is an Object Oriented Langauage that uses C as
> it's building blocks.
> 
> C++ can compile ANSI C - Bjarne enjoys talking about
> having to tell 
> Dennis how C really works ;^)
> 
> The problem I have seen with C++ is that many people
> learn it as C, not 
> as an OO langaguge. They miss out on a lot of C++'s
> strengths.
> 
> I would focus on C for 3rd generation programming
> skills, more towards 
> Java for OO (Marketable Skills).
> 
> I would use K&R for learning the coding framework
> for C.
> 
> The strength of C comes from the stdlib, many
> programmers re-invent code 
> that exists in the standard library. Find a
> referenece book from
> OReilly's and read through it a couple of times.
> 
> Read through "Programming in a Unix Environment" by
> Pike and others to 
> get an idea of the framework of programming with
> Unix. You should be 
> able to say you have seen yacc and lex...
> 
> Look at a lot of code. The best way to learn is to
> find good source code 
> examples and study them.
> 
> Doctor Dobb's Journel  has a CD with the last 10
> years of their articles 
> available, with source code. It would give a good
> reference base
> of projects and examples to look at.
> 
> Later,
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
> Rob Townley wrote:
> 
> >I'd have to agree that the K&R C book is a great
> programming book, but
> >it is challenging for a beginner.  I think you will
> want multiple
> >books, including an easy one as well such as __The
> Waite Group's New C
> >Primer Plus__  by MItchell Waite and Stephen Prata.
> >
> >Why not start first with learning C++, you will
> find compilers and
> >input behavior more standardized than C especially
> when writing
> >portable code across multiple platforms.  Learn C++
> first, you can
> >learn straight C later.
> >
> >Even if for some reason (say you want to write
> device drivers or
> >maintain old C code) you have your mind set on
> learning C first, you
> >may want to use the g++ instead of gcc compiler so
> that switching
> >between C and C++ is as painless as possible. 
> There is a bunch of
> >different forms of syntax across the different
> versions of C and C++,
> >there is no need to learn more than one in the
> beginning.  Someday,
> >you may have to maintain some old code, by that
> time, you will be
> >experienced enough to recognize it as a different
> style of C, but it
> >will not be a problem to pick up on the fly.
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:57:52 -0800 (PST), Eric
> Pierce
> ><eric_olug at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>I'm looking to dig deep into C, and I want
> everyone's recommendations for
> >>texts.
> >>
> >>Now do I need to focus on books after ANSI C was
> standardized on?  Wasn't that
> >>around 1998 or so?
> >>
> >>My wife has Deitel/Deitel's 'How to Program C' but
> the edition came out in
> >>1994. I've also looked at O'Reilly's 'Practical C'
> 3rd edition, but it's from
> >>1997.  So are these books not useful anymore?
> >>
> >>Thanks for any input,
> >>Eric Pierce
> >>
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